HOUSE BILL No. 5672

 

January 30, 2008, Introduced by Reps. Knollenberg, Dean, Moss, Hoogendyk, Shaffer, Palmer and Agema and referred to the Committee on Labor.

 

     A bill to amend 1964 PA 154, entitled

 

"Minimum wage law of 1964,"

 

by amending section 14 (MCL 408.394), as amended by 2006 PA 373.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 14. (1) This act does not apply to an employer who is

 

subject to the minimum wage provisions of the fair labor standards

 

act of 1938, 29 USC 201 to 219, unless those federal minimum wage

 

provisions would result in a lower minimum hourly wage than

 

provided in this act. Each of the following applies to an employer

 

who is subject to this act only by application of this subsection:

 

     (a) Section 4a does not apply.

 

     (b) This act does not apply to an employee who is exempt from

 

the minimum wage requirements of the fair labor standards act of

 


1938, 29 USC 201 to 219.

 

     (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an employee shall be paid

 

in accordance with the minimum wage and overtime compensation

 

requirements of sections section 4 and 4a if the employee meets

 

either of the following conditions:

 

     (a) Is is employed in domestic service employment to provide

 

companionship services as defined in 29 CFR 552.6 for individuals

 

who, because of age or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves

 

and is not a live-in domestic service employee as described in 29

 

CFR 552.102.

 

     (3) (b) Is Notwithstanding subsection (1), an employee shall

 

be paid in accordance with the minimum wage and overtime

 

compensation requirements of sections 4 and 4a if the employee is

 

employed to provide child care, but is not a live-in domestic

 

service employee as described in 29 CFR 552.102. However, the

 

requirements of sections 4 and 4a do not apply if the employee

 

meets all of the following conditions:

 

     (i) Is under the age of 18.

 

     (ii) Provides services on a casual basis as described in 29 CFR

 

552.5.

 

     (iii) Provides services that do not regularly exceed 20 hours

 

per week, in the aggregate.

 

     (4) (3) This act does not apply to persons employed in summer

 

camps for not more than 4 months or to employees who are covered

 

under section 14 of the fair labor standards act of 1938, 29 USC

 

214.

 

     (5) (4) This act does not apply to agricultural fruit growers,

 


pickle growers and tomato growers, or other agricultural employers

 

who traditionally contract for harvesting on a piecework basis, as

 

to those employees used for harvesting, until the board has

 

acquired sufficient data to determine an adequate basis to

 

establish a scale of piecework and determines a scale equivalent to

 

the prevailing minimum wage for that employment. The piece rate

 

scale shall be equivalent to the minimum hourly wage in that, if

 

the payment by unit of production is applied to a worker of average

 

ability and diligence in harvesting a particular commodity, he or

 

she receives an amount not less than the hourly minimum wage.

 

     (6) (5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act,

 

subsection (1)(a) and (b) and subsection (2) do does not deprive an

 

employee or any class of employees of any right that existed on

 

September 30, 2006 to receive overtime compensation or to be paid

 

the minimum wage.